Henry Green

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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1951
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 13 titles

  • Party Going

    A modernist "masterpiece" (The New York Times) that will appeal to fans of Downton Abbey and The Great GatsbyParty Going, published in 1939, is Henry Green’s darkly comic valediction to what W. H. Auden famously described as the “low dishonest de...

  • Doting

    Doting, the last of Henry Green’s novels, is, as its title would suggest, a story of aging and yearning in which a wife and a brash young woman run hilarious circles around a hapless hardworking civil servant suddenly seized by long dormant desire....

  • Blindness

    Henry Green's first novel, and the book that began his career as a master of British modernismBlindness -- Henry Green’s first novel, begun while he was still at Eton and finished before he left university -- is the story of John Haye, a young stud...

  • Back

    Back is the story of Charley Summers, who is back from the war and a POW camp having lost the woman he loved, Rose, to illness before he left and his leg to fighting. In other words, Charley has very little to come back to, only memories, and on top ...

  • Surviving

    A collection of work by Henry Green is introduced by John Updike and includes never-before-published short stories, pieces on London during the Blitz, journalism, book reviews, a play, and more. 10,000 first printing. $10,000 ad/promo....

  • Concluding

    Henry Green considered Concluding the finest of all his books Concluding -- set in a single summer day -- has at its heart old Mr. Rock, a famous retired scientist: he lives in a cottage on the grounds of a girl’s boarding school. Living with him i...

  • Nothing

    Years ago, Jane Weatherby had a torrid affair with John Pomfret, the husband of her best friend. Divorces ensued. World War II happened. Prewar partying gave way to postwar austerity, and Jane and John’s now-grown children, Philip and Mary, both as...

  • Caught

    During the Blitz, Henry Green served on the London Auxiliary Fire Service, and this experience lies behind Caught, published when the bombing had only recently ended. Like Green, Richard Roe, the hero of this resolutely unheroic book, comes from the ...

  • Nothing, Doting, Blindness

    Henry Green is a neglected master of 20th century literature who is ripe for rediscovery.

    These three brilliant novels span Green’s career as a novelist and display his unique talents as a writer. Nothing is a tale of the merry-go-round of ...



  • Loving, Living, Party Going

    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SEBASTIAN FAULKS

    Henry Green, whom W. H. Auden called 'the finest living English novelist', is the most neglected writer of the last century and the one most deserving of rediscovery by a new generation. This v...

  • Living

    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SEBASTIAN FAULKS Henry Green, whom W. H. Auden called 'the finest living English novelist', is the most neglected writer of the last century and the one most deserving of rediscovery by a new generation. This volume brings ...

  • Caught, Back, Concluding

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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Henry Green has published 13 books.

Henry Green does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Caught, Back, Concluding, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Henry Green, Party Going, was published in January 1951.

No. Henry Green does not write books in series.
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